World Humanitarian Summit

The first ever World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) will be held on 23-25th May 2016 and is a call to action by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon to reduce human loss and suffering from crises. Read more to be informed, support GNDR and participate.

How has GNDR been involved?

Our regional development coordinators attended key regional meetings and sharing the voices from the frontline.

GNDR members from around the world took part in the WHS online consultations.

GNDR members are attending the Summit and organising side events.

At the Summit we will be pushing some key messages. We believe that if humanitarian action is to be effective we must build resilience before disasters hit, build on local capacities during crises, and build back better afterwards. To do that effectively we must take into account the realities on the ground. We will be using some of our hard hitting examples from Frontline and the 365 disasters campaign to raise awareness of the complex local contexts that must be taken into account in humanitarian work.

Downloads & Links

Paper by Bond DRR Group: BONDDRR-WHSRecommendations.pdf106.45 KBRecommendations on how the WHS focusing on could help ensure coherence across different agendas (development, humanitarian, disaster risk reduction, and climate change).